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Fighting online about consoles is something I did when I was waaaaay younger (Xbox 360/PS3/Wii generation) and it’s one of the stupidest things you can do on the Internet. I look back on my younger self and mourn the wasted time arguing which multi billion company makes the better entertainment device.

I wonder what happened that the Celeste devs never got the physical trophy? And more important: Why did nobody at The Game Awards never send them a replacement? Imagine something like this happening at the Oscars. The Academy probably would do their damnedest to replace a trophy that was lost at the ceremony off no

Fifteen year on Steam and you only have... *snorts* ...810 games?!
*loud laughing*
Pleeeeaase, maybe you should stop calling yourself a True Gamer unless you have the 1,201 games I have! And that’s even without some fancy publishers sending me codes!
*a moment of silence realising how huge that number is*
*loud sobbing

I love games, but, damn, he’s not completely wrong. 

Thank you for this insightful comment about not liking Halo for an article about getting better at Halo. 

Bring Dr Dre into Red Dead Online, you cowards. 

Maybe you’re thinking of Injustice, the DC game? Because after the first game that became a surprisingly sucessful comic book series. 

I’m exactly on that team. Never played a Forza Horizon before, even if they sounded like a lot of fun. Tried FH4 through Game Pass and freaking loved it. I was absolutely ready when FH5 came out. 

I sense something, a presence I’ve not felt since...

This would have been a triumph. I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS 

Even games like Wolfenstein have been cleared for release in Germany, where once any depiction of Nazis would torpedo any chance of it being sold.

I just remembered there’s a Frogger reality game show thing. Oh boy.

It’s the golden age of video game frogs.

zack why don’t you like fun

Subtlety is for cowards, and Kojima is no coward when it comes to making his gameplay mechanics literal.

Number station are pretty cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

The trailer in the article is not for the original Rag Doll Kung-Fu from 2005, it’s from the 2009 PS3 sequel Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic.

I’m pretty sure I joined Steam when I got the physical Half-Life 2 Holiday 2006 Collection with Half-Life 2, HL2 Episode One and Half-Life Source. My first three purchases were later in 2008 Audiosurf, Geometry Wars and Everyday Shooter. That’s a pretty good selection. And I bought the mentioned Rag Doll Kung-Fu in

Never forget there’s a Berlin Interpretation of roguelikes: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Berlin_Interpretation

There’s a documentary called “Get Lamp” about those early Interactive Fiction days, that could be right up your alley. It was made by Jason Scott, who does a lot of archival work (especially about computer games) for the Internet Archive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lamp